A joke? We're not laughing, Mr Shatter

PUB. DATE

May 2013

SOURCE

Mail on Sunday;5/19/2013, p21

SOURCE TYPE

Newspaper

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

ARE there no depths to Alan Shatter's cynical disregard for due process and for democratic accountability? It is outrageous enough that the Justice Minister should use confidential Garda information for political point-scoring. But ever since he dropped his bombshell on Thursday's Prime Time, Mr Shatter has refused to explain how he came to know about a trivial incident in which Mick Wallace TD was apparently cautioned for using a mobile while driving. His arrogant, dismissive and hopelessly inadequate response to the gathering storm of outrage is nowhere better exemplified than in his response yesterday to Fianna FÃ¡il demands that he resign, a sneering: 'Is that a joke?' No, Mr Shatter, this is not a joke. It is, of course, farcical that the man with direct responsibility for the entire security apparatus of the State should engage in this type of political point-scoring. But making light of this would be a joke in the very worst possible taste.

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